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Husband Lost At Sea is the music based project from Patrick Shannon, better known from heavier bands such as Hold Down The Ocean and All Else Failed. It began as a traditional singer/songwriter concept but has expanded in a way that suggests influence from indie and even prog rock. The debut EP The Universe Is Telling Old Friends To Reach Out To Me was released Friday, Nov. 21st.  Featured Track: "Wrong Turns".  

Photo credit: @hardwork_photo

GRACE VONDERKUHN is a 3-piece rock band from Wilmington, Delaware. Uniting in 2016, the outfit consists of Grace Koon, songwriter, singer, and guitarist, Brian Bartling, bassist, and Dave McGrory, drummer and singer. They combine elements of shoegaze, post-punk, and psych with a sharp pop sensibility. The band has toured the US, played SXSW, Audiotree and NonCOMM, and shared the stage with Geese, Sheer Mag, Camp Cope, and Shame to name a few. Featured Track: "Into The Morning".

Tucked In is an indie-folk band based in Phoenixville, PA.  Fresh off a 23-date summer tour across Pennsylvania and beyond, the band just released their debut album Friends, Dogs and Lovers. This collection of songs tells the story of the band’s beginning in New York City to their present lives in Pennsylvania. They will be kicking off 2026 with a show at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia on 1/30. Featured Track: "Pennsylvania".

Psychopomp is a punk rock trio formed in Philadelphia PA. Their influences include Ramones, The Stooges, Black Flag, Adolescents and GBH to name a few.  Featured Track: "Which Side Are You On?".

Rasan in the Heyday is a delightful blend of a pop, punk and grunge, delivered with a DIY attitude. Imagine your favorite corner store, but instead of snacks it delivers rock and roll.  Lead by singer/songwriter Rasan Allbritton, Rasan in the Heyday was formed in the end of 2016, and quickly gained a following playing basements and bars around Southeastern PA.  Rasan in the Heyday’s debut EP, released in April 2018, blends the raw intensity of 90s grunge with sing-along melodies perfect for a Friday night. For fans of Neutral Milk Hotel, Tegan and Sara, Kevin Devine and The Front Bottoms. Featured Track: "I Just Don't Know". Photo credit: @n.thomasphotography 

Hailing from Brooklyn NY, dweller. is a post-hardcore quartet that make heavy music for a heavy world — dweller. is Kevin Ultsh, Greg Rocco, Juan Aguilar, and Christian Cabatu. Featured Track: "Caught In The Light".

Kief Shuvel has built a reputation on raucous guitar energy, collaborative experimentation, and a willingness to chase songs down whatever unexpected paths they present. Formed from the remnants of earlier project Gypsy Wig, the Jersey City–based band has been quietly building momentum and a fanbase since 2021. With “Orange Blossom,” their first new release since 2024’s Dig, Kief Shuvel come back swinging with a sharp, ultra-swaggering new single. -- Anthony Mandelli

Photo Credit: Liz Sadkowski

Roe Knows Best is the brainchild of singer-songwriter, Roe O’Brien, indelibly New Jersey in sound, style, and attitude.

As a child, Young Roe was a music lesson warrior spending many nights and weekends learning Suzuki piano, music theory, and singing in choirs that took her around the world. As she grew older she became obsessed by the Good Charlotte self-titled album and Green Day's ‘American Idiot’. Catapulted into effervescent pop-punk dreams, Roe took a deep interest in songwriting, teaching herself guitar at age 14.

In May of 2020, Roe released the Muscle Memory EP, described as “pop-punk excellence” by Mad Indie Media. Her next follow-up culminated in the Northbound EP in July of 2022, recorded and mixed by Ace Enders (The Early November, I Can Make A Mess). The title track of Northbound gained the praise of music blog, ‘Look At My Records', also describing Roe’s overall catalog to be a collection of “truly heartfelt, catchy tunes”, all with an unmistakable New Jersey feel. In June of 2025 she released Weekend at Mauchie’s…Vol. 1, a collaborative EP co-written & recorded with fellow friend & Essex County, NJ native, Max Rauch (MAUCH), which demonstrates itself to be a genre-bending smorgasbord, coincidentally Spielberg-esque in subject matter (Ghosts, Aliens, Sharks, etc).

Her debut full-length album, Now Arriving…at Secaucus Junction, is currently out on all digital streaming platforms.  Featured Track: "191 Bus"

Gun-Shy Butterfly melds sugary harmonies and urgent hooks with fuzzed-out guitars for a tough and tuneful sensibility evoking the 1990s alt-rock, grunge, and Riot Grrrl scenes, especially bands like Veruca Salt, L7, The Breeders, and Bleach-era Nirvana.

Julie Exter and Andrea White of the bubble grunge duo are formidable singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists who both grew up dreaming of forming an all-girl band. Outside of creative pursuits, White and Exter are mothers in their 40s who are flipping the script on expectations about what women their age "should" be doing.

The band’s evocative name embodies an abstraction of raw female energy. “I wanted a name that represented transformation. That showed getting through the hardest shit and turning into a beautiful thing, like a butterfly,” White says. Rhyming and riffing, she added the "gun-shy" as a reflection on how it feels to face the same challenges over and over again, pressing on even when you don't trust the outcome.

The Philadelphia-based duo’s debut six-song EP Uncomplicated, salutes their ease of communication and collaboration, and its title also references Gun-Shy Butterfly’s specialty: no frills, open-hearted, loud-guitar rock. Featured Track: "Real Dreams"